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I am a behavioral ecologist studying life-history evolution, primarily with respect to mate preferences and parental investment in wild songbirds. My research seeks to understand the factors that mediate information signaling, decision-making, and conflict in these contexts and their impacts on fitness. I am particularly interested in how individuals manage reproductive trade-offs under varying environmental, ecological, and physiological conditions. I employ a combination of field and lab work in both observational and experimental contexts, utilizing methods such as bird banding, nest box monitoring, behavioral recording, spectrometry, and molecular techniques.

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